on 05/09/01 17:56, Seth Vidal at skvidal_at_phy.duke.edu wrote:
> Specifically, I've seen few people interested in a source-code-dump of
> the NewtonOS or the Handwriting Recognition system. If something like that
> were available then the newton features (of which the HWR is the most
> significant,IMO) could live on in another device. There are a lot of
> Strong-Arm Based devices available in the wild now. There is clearly
> processing power to do the stroke->dictionary comparison. The real
> difficulty is writing/getting the code.
>
>
> This is a fairly detailed description of apple's HWR for the newton.
> http://www.evergreen.edu/user/CISE/Yaeger.Handwriting.pdf
>
> Does anyone have any more information or anything to add?
> I love the newton and I intend to continue using mine but the hardware
> will only last for so long and I'd love to see the HWR in a good place,
> more importantly in a place where it can continue even w/o a company
> behind it.
The Newton's ROM are copyright by Apple. I'd be very surprised if you could
do a core dump, then re-use the code in another device. Apple would never
let this happens. The content of the ROM is not public domain, but the
property of Apple.
-Laurent.
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